"[...] with the stucco decoration restored from the existing remains and from Renaissance drawings." (caption, p.194); “The Colosseum was begun by Vespasian in the 70s AD on the site of the lake of Nero’s Domus Aurea, and was financed...
"The painted decorations were laid over the latter masonry, and this allows us to date them to the end of the second and the beginning of the first centuries B.C. The building itself must have been constructed earlier." (p.29)
Two-story stucco building facing Peterson Avenue on the Peterson-Dumesnil property which probably antedates the 1869 summer home on the same property. With peaked gable porch, small windows, and a scalloped barge board trim under the cornice, the...
